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Title:

Modeling Air Traveler Choice Behavior in Southern Ontario Market

Accession Number:

01043997

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

This paper reports on a passenger survey conducted in the passenger holdrooms of Toronto Pearson Airport. This survey targeted southern Ontario residents traveling non-stop to a selected set of U.S. destinations. Eligible, participating passengers were first asked a series of background questions. Then, they were asked to evaluate a series of choices of airline offerings, based on their current itinerary. Their choices were to remain with their current airline, switch to another local airline, or switch to an airline operating out of a remote airport. Price and schedule were varied for each choice. The data from this stated-preference survey were then used to estimate discrete-choice random utility models (one for business and one for non-business travelers). A nested-logit form was used, along with a normally distributed random coefficient to account for correlations between the choices for each passenger. Initial results from the model estimation are included. For the most part, passenger behavior is consistent with expectations. Further work on the model estimation is required. The information gleaned from this study could be used to estimate passenger acceptance of a proposed new airport in the Toronto area.

Monograph Accession #:

01042056

Report/Paper Numbers:

07-0778

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Tron, Andrew
McCoomb, Lloyd A
Nowicki, Mark
Kowal, Peter

Pagination:

21p

Publication Date:

2007

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

CD-ROM

Features:

Figures (1) ; References (15) ; Tables (8)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Choices; Nested logit models

Geographic Terms:

Ontario (Province)

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Terminals and Facilities

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2007 Paper #07-0778

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2007 5:22PM